Three men in a boat / Трое в лодке, не считая собаки. Книга для чтения на английском языке

7. We will have a boat with a cover. It is ever so much …, and … comfortable.

8. I … not know whether you … ever … the thing I mean.

9. One huge wave catches me up and … me in a sitting posture, … hard … ever it can, down on to a rock which … … put there for me.

10. Harris said there … nothing … a swim before breakfast to give you an appetite. He said it always … him an appetite.

5. Match the words with definitions.

6. Find in the text the English equivalents for:

на следующий вечер, листок бумаги, сказать обиженным тоном, потерять из виду, поднимать шум, вовремя, записать, обходиться без чего-либо, бесполезный хлам, выбрасывать за борт, забегать вперед, на случай если.

7. Find the words in the text for which the following are synonyms:

next, arrange, begin, yell, hand (v), keep, beside, permit, fear, bathe.

8. Explain and expand on the following.

1. That’s Harris all over – so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

2. Harris always reminds me of my poor Uncle Podger.

3. Uncle Podger would gradually start the whole house.

4. The first list we made out had to be torn up.

5. Throw the lumber over, man!

6. “We won’t take a tent,” suggested George.

7. I notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing.

8. George said two suits of flannel would be sufficient.

9. Answer the following questions.

1. Who reminds of Uncle Podger? Why?

2. Does Uncle Podger need any help? What help does he need?

3. Why was the first list of things torn up?

4. What does the narrator say about our “boats of life”? What does he mean?

5. How will the friends manage to travel without a tent?

6. Does the narrator swim much when he goes to the sea-side? Why / why not?

7.

8. Why did George withdraw his opposition?

9. Why would two suits of flannel be sufficient?

10. What set of things did the friends decide to take?

10. Retell the chapter for the persons of the narrator, George, Uncle Podger, Aunt Maria.

CHAPTER IV

Then we discussed the food question. George said:

“Begin with breakfast.” (George is so practical.